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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

2004 · directed by Stephen Hillenburg · 87 min
23,367 feet · Prominence
1,193rd of 24,106 films scored
Not coveredNo Rewatchables episode on file.

How this film scores

Draw63

Lifetime worldwide gross $141m, re-releases included; about $246m in 2026 money.

Rank1,399 of 11,051In 200437 of 256

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise68

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics68 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy50

Judged directly: Generational cartoon touchstone, meme-rich.

Verdict50 of 100IMDb7.2 from 110kWikipedia44k views a monthAge22 years

Scored beside it · 1,078 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 63 praise 68 legacy 50averages 60, placing it at23,367 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Rodger Bumpass

In these careers — elevation for this film

Clancy Brown18,502 ftBill Fagerbakke18,168 ftRodger Bumpass17,927 ftScarlett Johansson17,662 ftAlec Baldwin17,659 ftThomas F. Wilson17,639 ftJeffrey Tambor17,638 ft